CIRCLE WITH A DOT

„I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.“https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/„The whole thing took three minutes. Scan, selfie, done.Understanding what I actually agreed to took me an entire weekend reading 34 pages of legal documents.I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.All for a small blue checkmark on a professional networking site.“#privacy #GDPR #personaidentities #Microsoft #Linkedin #biometrics #cloudact

@ErikJonker "Legitimate interest" is their favorite catch-all phrase. The Austrian credit rating company Kreditschutzverband has a full history of all addresses I have ever lived at (at least those in Austria). When I asked them to delete it, their lawyers sent me a letter stating that they have legitimate interest. #ksv1870